carlsednaoui / nycio

NYC Tech Volunteer Database

NYC.IO

Interested in helping out? We'd love your help building this platform!

User stories and designs.

Getting started:

• Clone the project
• Launch postgres
• Run rake db:create
• Run rails server

About NYC.IO

DB Structure

|—Organizations
|—Programs
|—Program_Iterations

|-Users
  |-Admin
  |-Organization
  |-Volunteer
    |-Can have many organizations

Who

1. Volunteers
2. Organizations
3. Parents & students
4. Donors (just keep them in mind)

Why

1. A volunteer simply wants to volunteer their time
2. An organization primarily wants volunteers — they also want attendees
3. Parents & students want to find programs
4. ?

Success

1. Success for a volunteer is to find an opportunity to help
2. Success for an organization is to be able to manage their organization/ programs, get volunteers
3. Success for a parent/ student is to be able to find a program

Flow

• Volunteers can opt to receive monthly digest
• Volunteers can sign up to be contacted by organizations
• Volunteers can sign up for a specific program (and can opt-in to be contacted by other orgs)
  • Note: How do we ensure volunteers don't get hammered by org requests?